Billions & Billions : Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the MillenniumCarl Sagan, Ann Druyan (Epilogue) / Paperback / Published June 1998Price: $11.20 - Savings of: $2.80 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours"A FITTING LEGACY TO A PREMIER POPULARIZER OF SCIENCE." --San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle "ELOQUENT AND HAUNTING . . . Whether the topic is mankind's residual hunting impulses, the remembered smell of the electric transformer on his boyhood train, global warming, or life on Mars, Sagan is quick with a telling metaphor and vivid images." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "The last chapter, 'In the Valley of the Shadows,' is Sagan's last testament to the deeply thoughtful and humane philosophy he remained faithful to until death. It is a more personal view than Sagan often gave his readers, and it is m...

Billions & Billions : Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium [LARGE PRINT]Carl Sagon, Carl Sagan / Hardcover / Published March 1998Price: $26.95Back OrderedNonfiction Large Print Edition *A New York Times Bestseller In this book, his last, Carl Sagan again demonstrates his extraordinary ability to interpret the mysteries of life and the majesty of the universe to the lay reader. He provides clarity and understanding for an audience eager to make sense of the world and goes beyond that as he illuminates the strongly held belief that we have the ability to change things for the better. In their posthumous award to Dr. Sagan, the National Science Foundation declared that his research transformed planetary science, and that his gifts to mankind were ...

Billions and Billions; Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the MillenniumCarl Sagan / Hardcover / Published June 1997(Publisher Out Of Stock)The late author of Cosmos draws on the latest research into science, mathematics, and space in a study of the mysteries of life, addressing such topics as global warming, the abortion debate, life on Mars, and his own battle with myelodysplasia. 75,000 first printing."

Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes (General Large Print) [LARGE PRINT]Stephen W. Hawking, et al / Unknown Binding / Published November 1989(Publisher Out Of Stock)Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these...

Broca's Brain : Reflections on the Romance of ScienceCarl Sagan / Mass Market Paperback / Published October 1993Price: $5.59 - Savings of: $1.40 (20%) - Ships in 24 hoursCarl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future that we want to see today.

Chemistry Imagined : Reflections on ScienceRoald Hoffmann, et al / Unknown Binding / Published April 1995(Publisher Out Of Stock)A Nobel Prize-winning chemist uses collages, short essays, personal commentary, and poems to show the magic and mysteries of his field and stress the social, literary, and psychological aspects of chemistry.

CometCarl Sagan, Ann Druyan (Contributor) / Paperback / Published January 1997Price: $12.80 - Savings of: $3.20 (20%) - Ships in 24 hoursTimed to coincide with the appearance of the comet Hale-Bopp, a revision of the 1985 best-seller--the definitive work about comets--takes the reader on a journey through space astride a comet and explores the myths surrounding comets.

ContactCarl Sagan / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1997Price: $6.00 - Savings of: $1.50 (20%) - Ships in 24 hoursIn December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there?

ContactCarl Sagan / Turtleback / Published June 1986Price: $14.75Special Order

Contact [ABRIDGED]Carl Sagan, Jodie Foster (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published July 1997Price: $19.20 - Savings of: $4.80 (20%) - Ships in 24 hoursPulitzer Prize-winner Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all--the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space. In December 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who--or what--is out there? Simultaneous with the big-budget Warner Bros. feature film starring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughy and directed by Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) and the Pocket mass market movie tie-in edition. 4 cassettes.

ContactoCarl Sagan / Paperback / Published December 1998Price: $12.00 - Ships in 24 hoursIt is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the variou...

Contacto/ContactCarl Sagan / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown(Publisher Out Of Stock)It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the variou...

CosmosCarl Sagan / Mass Market Paperback / Published September 1993Price: $6.39 - Savings of: $1.60 (20%) - Ships in 24 hoursThe best-selling science book ever published in the England language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today's knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way.

CosmosCarl Sagan / Paperback / Published May 1983(Publisher Out Of Stock)Based on Sagan's 13 part television series, "Cosmos" is about science in its broadest human context, and how science and civilization grew up together. With over 250 full-color illustrations.

Pale Blue DotCarl Sagan / Audio Cassette / Published December 1994Price: $20.36 - Savings of: $3.59 (15%) - Ships in 2-3 daysThis follow-up to the hugely successful Cosmos is an entertaining, informative look at humankind's changing perception of its place in the universe, from ancient astronomers to NASA to possible human colonization of other worlds. 4 cassettes.

Pale Blue DotCarl Sagan / Audio Cassette / Published December 1994Price: $73.25Back OrderedA follow-up to the best-selling Cosmos takes an entertaining look at humankind's changing awareness of its place in the universe and the rich potential of human ventures into the world beyond Earth. 125,000 first printing. Tour.

Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in SpaceCarl Sagan / Hardcover / Published December 1994Price: $24.50 - Savings of: $10.50 (30%) - Ships in 24 hoursA follow-up to the best-selling Cosmos takes an entertaining look at humankind's changing awareness of its place in the universe and the rich potential of human ventures into the world beyond Earth. 125,000 first printing. Tour.

Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in SpaceCarl Sagan / Paperback / Published September 1997Price: $10.36 - Savings of: $2.59 (20%) - Ships in 2-3 daysThe long-awaited sequel to Pulitzer Prize-winner Carl Sagan's classic work Cosmos--the bestselling science book ever published in the English language. A compelling, erudite, and thoroughly entertaining look at man's changing awareness of his place in the universe, Pale Blue Dot is a captivating field guide to our known universe, beautifully represented with dazzling photographs and illustrations.

Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in SpaceCarl Sagan, Ann Godoff (Editor) / Paperback / Published October 1995Price: $21.25 - Savings of: $3.75 (15%) - Ships in 2-3 daysPulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan traces our exploration of space and suggests that our very survival may depend on the wise use of other worlds. This stirring book reveals how scientific discovery has altered our perception of who we are and where we stand, and challenges us to weigh what we will do with that knowledge. Photos, many in color.

Pale Blue Dot [ABRIDGED]Carl Sagan(Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published February 1998Price: $6.76 - Savings of: $1.19 (15%) - Ships in 2-3 daysA follow-up to the best-selling Cosmos takes an entertaining look at humankind's changing awareness of its place in the universe and the rich potential of human ventures into the world beyond Earth. 125,000 first printing. Tour.

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors : A Search for Who We AreCarl Sagan, Ann Druyan (Contributor) / Paperback / Published October 1993Price: $11.20 - Savings of: $2.80 (20%) - Ships in 24 hoursSpanning more than four billion years, from "the beginning and a little before," this brilliant chronicle of the first stirrings of life on Earth traces the human animal's evolution--and makes a powerful case for man's enduring kinship with the "lower" animals.

The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the DarkCarl Sagan / Hardcover / Published April 1996Price: $25.95 - Ships in 24 hoursExplores the role of science in destroying prejudice and hysteria and in uncovering the truth about the world in which we live, refuting the argument that science destroys spirituality and explaining how scientific thinking safeguards democratic institutions. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the DarkCarl Sagan / Paperback / Published March 1997Price: $11.20 - Savings of: $2.80 (20%) - Ships in 24 hoursExamines and debunks what the Pulitzer Prize-winning author refers to as ""pseudo-science,"" which includes such popular topics as channeling past lives, alien abduction, and communal hallucinations, suggesting that these trends are dangerous for society. Reprint.

The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Dark (Unabridged Audio Book) [UNABRIDGED]Carl Sagan, Michael Page (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Expected January 2000Price: $20.76 - Savings of: $5.19 (20%)Are we on the brink of a new Dark Age of irrationality and superstition? In this stirring, brilliantly argued book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dragons of Eden and Cosmos shows how scientific thinking can cut through prejudice and hysteria and uncover the truth, and how it is necessary to safeguard our democratic institutions and our technical civilization.

The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Dark [UNABRIDGED]Carl Sagan, Michael Page (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published March 1996Price: $89.25Back OrderedAre we on the brink of a new Dark Age of irrationality and superstition? In this stirring, brilliantly argued book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dragons of Eden and Cosmos shows how scientific thinking can cut through prejudice and hysteria and uncover the truth, and how it is necessary to safeguard our democratic institutions and our technical civilization.

The Dragons of Eden : Speculations on the Evolution of Human IntelligenceCarl Sagan / Mass Market Paperback / Published December 1989Price: $5.59 - Savings of: $1.40 (20%) - Ships in 24 hoursThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Broca's Brain and Cosmos takes us on a powerful and compelling voyage to the inner space between our ears, offering his vivid insight into the brain of man and beast, the origins of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries. Illustrations and photos.

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human IntelligenceCarl Sahan, Carl Sagan / Hardcover / Published May 1977Price: $8.21 - Savings of: $2.74 (25%)Back OrderedThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Broca's Brain and Cosmos takes us on a powerful and compelling voyage to the inner space between our ears, offering his vivid insight into the brain of man and beast, the origins of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries. Illustrations and photos.

The Encyclopedia of the ParanormalGordon Stein(Editor), Carl Sagan / Hardcover / Published February 1996Price: $149.95 - Ships in 2-3 daysThe Encyclopedia Of The Paranormal is the first comprehensive work on the subject written from a scientific perspective. Its intent is to examine paranormal phenomena via quantifiable evidence, as such phenomena must be studied if valid conclusions are to be reached. Carl Sagan, in his foreword to the volume say, I wish [this book] were on the shelves of every newspaper editorial desk and every television newsroom, to encourage more skeptical backbone in reporting. . . [I]n school libraries so that children would have some counterbalance to the many paranormal and mystical claims in our ...

The Making of a Soviet Scientist : My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space from Stalin to Star WarsRoald Z. Sagdeev, et al / Hardcover / Published April 1994Price: $24.95 - Ships in 2-3 daysTime calls Sagdeev ". . .a mixture of wit, charm, and trenchant observation." In this thoroughly engaging memoir by one of the world's leading physicists, Sagdeev offers a window into the Soviet scientific world. As head of the joint U.S.-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz mission and advisor to Gorbachev, his story offers the first insider's account from the only top-ranking member to leave the Soviet space program. Full of surprising details and wry humor.

Visions for the 21st CenturyCarl Sagan / Audio Cassette / Published October 1997(Publisher Out Of Stock)Recorded at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, this audio work features the Pulitzer Prize-wining author, Dr. Carl Sagan. His presentation evoked the sane tenets and mysteries offered in his immensely popular PBS series, "Cosmos", and his bestselling book, "The Dragons of Eden". These cassettes also include many of the world's leading religious and political leaders. Posthumously, Dr. Sagan's novel, "Contact", is now a major motion picture starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConnaugh. 2 cassettes.